Second known tanker carrying sanctioned Russian Arctic LNG berths in China

6/9/2025 16:05

Another tanker carrying liquefied natural gas from Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project has docked in a Chinese port, ship-tracking data showed, days after Russian President Vladimir Putin met China's leader Xi Jinping in Beijing.



The LSEG tracking data indicated the Russian Voskhod LNG tanker was anchored at an LNG terminal in the port of Tieshan in China's southwestern province of Guangxi.



The Russian flagged tanker, with a cargo of 150,000 cubic metres of LNG, was loaded up at the Arctic LNG 2 facility in Gydan in northern Siberia on July 19, LSEG data showed.



The cargo is the second from the sanctioned project to dock in China after sanctioned tanker Arctic Mulan arrived at the Beihai LNG terminal in late August. Arctic Mulan's cargo was the first from Arctic LNG to reach an end-user since it started up last year.



The Arctic project began production in December 2023, but is behind schedule in supplying cargoes of the gas, because of shortages of ice-class gas carriers and Western sanctions over Russia's conflict with Ukraine.